A Flower unblown: a Book unread:
A Tree with fruit unharvested: A Path untrod: a House whose
rooms
Lack yet the heart's divine perfumes:
A Landscape whose wide border lies
In silent shade 'neath silent skies:
A wondrous Fountain yet unsealed:
A Casket with its gifts concealed:--
This is the Year that for you waits
Beyond To-morrow's mystic gates.
- [New Year's Day]